Patch 0.9

oh you wanted bots in single player

DELIVERED

oh you wanted better pings?

WE GOT THE MOST PERFECT PINGS

and not just that

WE GOT EMOTES!!!!

you wanted balance?

WE PROBABLY MADE THE GAME MORE BALANCED

maybe

MERRY BOATMAS EVERYONE!!!!!!

It's Early Access

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We love you all

New Features

New Ping System

Pings are now dynamic based on what you ping and come in 3 types:

• Default (Towards/Engaging) - Using this on an enemy will indicate your intention of targeting that enemy player, structure, or harvester, or simply that you are moving to a location
• Move Away - A call to retreat or back off enemies. This can also be used to indicate your inability to help with the harvester
• Group Up - A call to group up to then perform an action, group up to defend the tower, group up to take the enemy tower, etc.

You can now ping your abilities with the default ping to alert your teammates of the remaining time left on the ability, or if it is ready.
Note: Default is ALT currently and can be configured in the settings menu

Chat Wheel

You can bring up a simple menu of options to interact with your team.
Note: Default is T currently and can be configured in the settings menu

Experience System

After every match, you will get 200-220 experience for your account. A win gives a 30% bonus. Every time you level up, you will receive rewards - both resources and Terns to spend on captains, craft skins, and purchase shipments. Every 5 levels gives extra rare drops.
Note: Leavers will not get experience

Store

We now offer a store to help support us in development. The store has two offerings currently Captains and Shipments.
Captains - You can purchase individual captains for either:

• Terns (currency earned from playing the game)
• Rho (premium currency acquired from purchasing it from us)

There is an additional option called the Captain Pack which is only sold for Rho, but gives you all current captains and all future captains we release.
Note: Upon purchasing the Captain Pass, all captains previously purchased will be refunded, giving you back what you used to purchase them before. So if you purchased a captain with Terns, you will get back the amount of Terns; if you purchased with Rho, you will get back that amount of Rho.

Shipments - Each shipment contains resources from different regions of our world and can be further broken down into Type of Resource. Rarity and Tier grow with higher tier shipments. So if you want additional resources for crafting beyond the rewards from playing, you can purchase additional Shipments with either Rho or Terns.

Bots

In practice mode, you will now have 9 other Sampan players (bots) besides you that you can use to practice with, test, or just play. Currently, they only have the brain power to move, use weapons and sometimes use an ability, but in the future, purchase upgrades, and maybe even switch ships.

Rank Badge Updated

Everyone now starts has an Urchin, progressing with every game they play. After 5 games you evolve into either a Scrubber Shrimp or a Baitfish. Once you have played a total of 10 games you will Earn your official Badge. Once in the official badge area you can progression left and right across the field as you win and lose games.

GENERAL CHANGES

• Winning a payout now spawns a Siege Minion for each lane, vs just one lane

Economy

• Reduced passive gold from 90 gold per minute to 60 for players
• Reduced passive gold for the empire from 210 to 60 per minute
• Occo comeback value growth from 3% to 2.5% (less occo for a kill when behind later in the game)
• Comeback experience growth from 1% per minute to 0.7% (less experience for a kill when behind later in the game)

Structures

• Salt Core flat damage reduced from 100 to 50
• Salt Core percentage of max health as bonus damage from 10% to 6%
• Shipyard flat damage reduced from 50 to 20
• Salt Core percentage of max health as bonus damage from 5% to 3%
• Max health of Salt Core reduced from 15,000 to 11,000
• Health Regeneration of Salt Core increased from 5 to 20

Minions

• Large Minion base damage reduced from 70 to 60
• Medium Minion base damage reduced from 35 to 25
• Small Minion base damage from 8 to 10
• Siege Minion base damage from 220 to 200
• Large Minion base health from 780 to 810
• Medium Minion base health from 390 to 410
• Large minion base speed increased from 33 to 35 knots
• Medium minion base speed increased from 33.5 to 35.5 knots
• Small minion base speed increased from 34 to 36
• Siege minions now take 50% reduced damage from other minions, 40% reduced damage from structures. They take 10% more damage from pierce damage, 40% from ballistic.
• Siege minions weapons now have 1 max ammo vs 2, and fires every 2 seconds vs 1.5

SHIPS

Overall Ship Changes

• Increased starting max health from 800 to 900
• Player base bounty increased from 250 occo to 300 occo
• Player bounty increase per minute from 1.5% to 0.3%
• Max health increase per level increased
  • Small: 170 to 190
  • Medium: 180 to 200
  • Large: 190 to 210

Utilities Changes

• Reinforcement
  • Flat max health bonus reduced from
    • OLD: 200, 500, 900, 1400, 2000, 2700, 3500, 4400, 5400
    • NEW: 100, 300, 600, 1000, 1500, 2100, 2800, 3600, 4500

  
  

Small Class Ships

Sampan (starting ship)

• Sludge Bomb (Ability 2)
  • Slow rescaled from [18-40] to [15-55] knots

Zephyr (Tier 1)

• Deafening Gale (Ability 3)
  • Reduced knockback strength by roughly 30%

Dragonfly (Tier 2)

• Surge Drive (Ability 1)
  • Reduced cast time from 0.05 to 0

• Deathgaze (Ability 3)
  • Collision projectile size reduced from 11 to 8

Paradox (Tier 4)

• Inversion Ritual (Ability 1)
  • Reduced back in time from 4 to 3 seconds
  • Base projectile speed reduced from 100 to 85
  • Warden Augment
    • Bonus projectile speed and range from 33% to 50%

  
  
• Dilation Field (Ability 2)
  • Slow from [5-15] x2 knots after 5 seconds to [4-10] x2 knots after 5 seconds
  • Augments
    • Striker [Changed]: Amplify damage to enemies in the area starting at 1% and growing to 10% after 5 seconds
    • Warden [Changed]: Increase ability cooldown recovery for allies by 2% growing up to 20% after 5 seconds
    • Dominator [Changed]: Now reduces cooldown by 15%
    • Guardian [Changed]: Increases duration by 40%

  
  
• Doppel (Ability 3)
  • Damage per second reduced from [40-160] x4 after 5 seconds in the area to [30-100] x3 after 5 applications
  • Damage type is now properly Area (so does reduced damage to Minions)
  • Cast range increased from 70 to 85
  • Augments
    • Striker [Changed]: Now is Gain an extra Charge
    • Warden [Changed]: Now is Form a Wall
    • Slayer: Increase Area and damage from 27% to 35%
    • Guardian [Changed]: Now increases duration by 132%

  
  

Medium Class Ships

Lurker (Tier 1)

• Crash Dive (Ability 1)
  • Striker Augment [Changed]: No longer gives vision but now provides 1% of max health as health regeneration while the effect is active

Lockjaw (Tier 2)

• Blaze (Ability 2)
  • Warden Augment: Knockback strength reduced by ~30%

Aurora (Tier 2)

• Glacial Wall (Ability 1)
  • Recoil increased slightly to allow jumping over islands more consistently
  • Guardian Augment: Now increases duration of Ice wall by 1.2 seconds, for all Ice walls spawned, even from other augments on the Aurora

Revenant (Tier 2)

• Blood Bombardment (Ability 2)
  • Now a medium projectile in addition to it being an Arc projectile

Large Class Ships

Oasis (Tier 2)